2025 NHL DRAFT Thread

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

Potter is a very talented kid and ASU has a much better hockey program than people would expect.

 

[Giovi]

Here's my list of names I will accept at 3 (aside from Schaefer/Misa, obviously):

Porter Martone, Cullen Potter, Kashawn Aitcheson, James Hagens, Roger McQueen (if somehow they get an encouraging medical report), Caleb Desnoyers

If it's literally any other name, Kyle needs to be fired.

I don't know how you expect to be taken seriously here.

 

[Kevin Musto]

I don't know how you expect to be taken seriously here.

If you want Frondell at 3 that bad, it is you that can't be taken seriously

 

[bwanajamba]

Potter at 3 would be a ridiculous pick and you know it

Extremely talented player but way too much risk in the profile to be a serious contender for the top of the draft

 

[WarriorofTime]

Anyone that produced less at the U18s than Hagens did at the U20s is an auto no for me. Junior tournaments aren’t the end all be all but please don’t try and be the smartest guy in the room and play yourself.

 

[Giovi]

If you want Frondell at 3 that bad, it is you that can't be taken seriously

I've been reading about who will probably be available, but haven't formed an order for who I'd like the Hawks to pick yet.

More importantly, while I enjoy reading the opinions of the amateur scouts here, I'm well aware that their knowledge about the art of scouting, and the picks their scouting, is dwarfed by Davidson and the scouts the Hawks employ.

That's what you miss. You're not the smartest guy in that room. Hell, you're not even close to being the smartest guy in this room.

 

[Drumman44]

Would Potter be available at 10 if we did a trade down?

 

[Kevin Musto]

Potter at 3 would be a ridiculous pick and you know it

Extremely talented player but way too much risk in the profile to be a serious contender for the top of the draft

Good.

Hawks should be hunting boom/bust players.

There's more than enough bottom 6ers in the system. Aim for someone who can be more than that, especially at 3rd overall.

 

[Hattrick Kane]

Good.

Hawks should be hunting boom/bust players.

There's more than enough bottom 6ers in the system. Aim for someone who can be more than that, especially at 3rd overall.

Yeah you have a brutal track record with these boom or bust picks. Nick Robertson, Marat Khusnutdinov, these are guys you would have taken top 10. You would be fired the first time you made a stupid ass pick like that.

 

[Crow]

Good.

Hawks should be hunting boom/bust players.

There's more than enough bottom 6ers in the system. Aim for someone who can be more than that, especially at 3rd overall.

No way in hell.

I’m not picking someone with no NHL floor of some kind at 3 OA that is absurd.

 

[Kevin Musto]

Yeah you have a brutal track record with these boom or bust picks. Nick Robertson, Marat Khusnutdinov, these are guys you would have taken top 10. You would be fired the first time you made a stupid ass pick like that.

Lane Hutson was in my top 10, but I guess that would've been a stupid ass pick

 

[WarriorofTime]

Would Potter be available at 10 if we did a trade down?

Potter will be there at 20. Possibly even at leaf pick.

 

[Kevin Musto]

I can at least see why you're all so apprehensive with Potter. He's small and the media is telling you he'll go in the 20s.

But I don't know why you're all against Aitcheson. He's the exact type of player everyone here would love.

 

[BHawks77]

Lane Hutson was in my top 10, but I guess that would've been a stupid ass pick

Even broken clock is right twice a day, maybe go look back on the ones you got wrong and learn some humbleness!! You have bad habit of bragging about rare few you get right without acknowledging the many you get wrong and you wonder why nobody takes you seriously.

 

[Castle8130]

Would Potter be available at 10 if we did a trade down?

Probably available at 20. A lot of talk about him as a 3rd line energy guy

 

[bwanajamba]

Good.

Hawks should be hunting boom/bust players.

There's more than enough bottom 6ers in the system. Aim for someone who can be more than that, especially at 3rd overall.

There will be a number of high upside players at 3 who aren't boom/bust and Potter will likely be available with a trade up from Toronto's pick. I will set myself on fire outside of KD's house if he takes Potter at 3. And I like the player in general

 

[statswatcher]

I can at least see why you're all so apprehensive with Potter. He's small and the media is telling you he'll go in the 20s.

But I don't know why you're all against Aitcheson. He's the exact type of player everyone here would love.

have you considered that people may not actually have very strong feelings about the prospect and that they are actually just tired of having to deal with your ass?

for example, i could not possibly care any less about whether or not they take anton frondell at 3, and yet i've been writing extensively in defense of that prospect solely because you write some of the most arrogant and bufoonish shit possible when you've made your mind up about something.

 

[ColbyChaos]

It’s not just his size. He did not impress in college. Showed a real lack of hustle, which we know is a no go for the Blackhawks.

Being PPG in as a true freshman in college is 1000% more impressive than anything Desnoyers has done in the worst league of the CHL

 

[Kevin Musto]

There will be a number of high upside players at 3 who aren't boom/bust and Potter will likely be available with a trade up from Toronto's pick. I will set myself on fire outside of KD's house if he takes Potter at 3. And I like the player in general

There really aren't "a number of high upside players at 3"

There's a lot of safe, high floor players available.

 

[ColbyChaos]

Lane Hutson was in my top 10, but I guess that would've been a stupid ass pick

Alex Vlasic

 

[Kevin Musto]

Honestly I'd be shocked if the Hawks aren't heavily considering Aitcheson

His name will probably pop up next time Powers starts talking about prospects they're interested in

 

[HawksDub89]

But I don't know why you're all against Aitcheson. He's the exact type of player everyone here would love.

I like him a ton, but not at 3. And I don’t see any chance he’s available at the Toronto pick.

 

[eklund2chicago]

Honestly I'd be shocked if the Hawks aren't heavily considering Aitcheson

His name will probably pop up next time Powers starts talking about prospects they're interested in

Dude what are you yapping about?

Aitcheson was 14 in Makenzie’s latest ranking and is a LHD, which we have already have a lot of. They are in no way going to heavily consider him at 3.

 

[ColbyChaos]

Honestly I'd be shocked if the Hawks aren't heavily considering Aitcheson

His name will probably pop up next time Powers starts talking about prospects they're interested in

Your meth dealer must make an absolute killing

 

[Teemu]

Aitcheson will go way too high but not that high